Encounters in Bioethics Program
The Encounters in Bioethics Program is an essential part of the Centre for Health Care Ethics’ mission to foster high-quality, ethical health care through research, education, and capacity building.
Eight times a year, Encounters in Bioethics presents discussions and dialogues on ethical issues in health care. The sessions are freely available and are accessible via the Zoom video conferencing platform. Each one-hour-long session usually consists of a guest speaker, who is a recognized scholar/researcher, a local/regional practitioner, and/or a person with lived experience or a caregiver. The speaker presents a particular topic that highlights current moral issues in bioethics. After the presentation, there is normally an opportunity to discuss the issues with questions and comments from audience members via the Zoom chat feature.
Previous Encounters in Bioethics discussions have focused on issues such as end-of-life decisions, ethics of research with human subjects, Indigenous health ethics, cross-cultural values, religious and cultural interpretations, allocation of scarce resources, and professional codes of ethics.
Everyone is welcome and no registration is required. Please join us!
Join the Encounters in Bioethics session via Zoom.
Encounters in Bioethics 2023-2024
Reflections on Science, Ethics & Politics in the Rhetoric of COVID-19 Policy
Thursday, April 25, 2024
12 - 1 pm
- Discuss the scope and rights of science and ethics in the context of public discourse about COVID-19 policy.
- Argue that the rhetoric of science had the effect of occluding or eclipsing ethical and political issues.
- Discuss why it matters that the relative scope and rights of science, ethics and politics be delimited.
Presenter: Michael Yeo, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Laurentian University, Department of Philosophy; Professor in Philosophy and Bioethics, NOSM University.
Free webinar. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome.
Certificate of Attendance available upon request to chce@lakeheadu.ca.
Join the Encounters in Bioethics session via Zoom.
Encounters in Bioethics 2023-2024
Exploring Youth Vaping in the Context of Choice & Autonomy
Thursday, March 21, 2024
12 - 1 pm
- Explore prevalence, trends, and health risks associated with adolescent vaping.
- Examine autonomy and choice in the context of adolescent vaping.
- Discuss challenges in balancing autonomy and choice with the responsibility to protect adolescent health.
Presenter: Jamie DiCasmirro, RN, MScN, PhD (student), Lecturer, School of Nursing, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON
Free webinar. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome.
Certificate of Attendance available upon request to chce@lakeheadu.ca.
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Encounters in Bioethics 2023-2024
Human Genome Editing: Unresolved Ethics Issues
Thursday, February 22, 2024
12 - 1 pm
- Discuss recently approved gene editing treatment for sickle cell disease.
- Present research on the ethics of gene editing, including impacts on reproductive autonomy and justice-based concerns.
- Reflect on the relationship between gene editing and the TRCC Calls to Action.
Presenters: Ryan Tonkens, PhD, Bioethicist, Lakehead University Centre for Health Care Ethics; Associate Professor, NOSMU; Adjunct, Department of Philosophy, Lakehead University and Maria Klimenko, MPH(C), BASc, CPHI(c), Policy & Program Advisor, Infectious Diseases, Ministry of Health.
Free webinar. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome.
Certificate of Attendance available upon request to chce@lakeheadu.ca.
Join the Encounters in Bioethics session via Zoom.
Encounters in Bioethics 2023-2024
Ethics and AI in Health Care in the North
Thursday, January 25, 2024
12 - 1 pm
- Survey current applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health care.
- Introduce the ethical issues surrounding AI in health care.
- Examine the ethics of AI in health care from under a Northern Ontario lens.
Presenter: Ryan Tonkens, PhD, Bioethicist, Lakehead University Centre for Health Care Ethics; Associate Professor, NOSMU; Adjunct, Department of Philosophy, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON.
Free webinar. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome.
Certificate of Attendance available upon request to chce@lakeheadu.ca.
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